Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said the whole idea of a special counsel is wrong but that at this point, Robert Mueller is "politically unfireable."

A guest on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Thursday, Krauthammer said "the reason it's wrong is that it creates an organization . . . to go on a fishing expedition."

"The problem here at root is the whole idea of the special counsel — their mandates are essentially unlimited; their resources are unlimited; and politically they're unfireable," Krauthammer told Carlson.

"Legally yes, but we know what happened with Nixon when he tried to fire a special prosecutor. And I think the same would happen to Trump; he'd be engulfed if he tried to," Krauthammer said.

Krauthammer said President Donald Trump seems to "accept the logic" of Mueller's team looking into his finances, as it pertains to Russia, but that anything outside of that would cross the "red line," as Trump said in The New York Times interview.

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